When governments, or other institutions, want to control what people think and say, they censor what people write and speak. The stories in this collection are about various forms of censorship.
This is part three of the 1958 film, Brothers Karamazov, directed by Richard Brooks.
This is part four of the 1958 film, Brothers Karamazov, directed by Richard Brooks.
This is part five of the 1958 film, Brothers Karamazov, directed by Richard Brooks.
The Karamazov brothers seek the advice of a holy man, Father Zosima, to settle a dispute over money.
A major theme of the novel - whether God exists - is introduced in this segment.
Honesty - about feelings and living a good life - at times seems non-existent among some of the Karamazov family and their friends.
Expressing Dmitri's apologies with money, Alexei is turned down as a father (who sorely needs the cash) heeds the wisdom of his dying son.
During the 16th century, when translators working in England wanted to provide people with English versions of religious works, the law not only disal...
The Catholic Church bans Nicolaus Copernicus's book on the 5th of March, 1616 (decades after his death). Why ban a book which Catholic Universities ha...
Writing the story about Roskolnikov, and his interior struggles, Dostoevsky takes us inside Roskolnikov's mind.
As a young man, Dostoevsky - and some of his friends - received a death sentence.
The First Amendment guarantees all Americans the right to freely express themselves.
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